Lamentations 2:13

What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem? 1 To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? 1 Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you? 1

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In The King James Version

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

In Context

12They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” 1 as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, 1 their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers. 1

14Your prophets have seen false and worthless visions for you. 1 They have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, 1 but for you they gave utterances that are false and misleading. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 60:2You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart; 1 heal its fissures, for it is shaking. 1

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no healer there? 1 Why will the healing of the daughter of my people not happen?

Jeremiah 14:17Say this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears, night and day. 1 Do not let them stop, for there will be a great collapse of the virgin daughter of my people— 1 a great and incurable wound. 1

Jeremiah 30:12For Yahweh says this, 'Your injury is incurable; your wound is infected. 1

Jeremiah 30:15Why do you call for help for your injury? Your pain is incurable. 1 Because of your many iniquities, your innumerable sins, I have done these things to you. 1

Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? 1 Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me, 1 since Yahweh has tormented me on the day of his fierce anger. 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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